Current Events > anyone play Immortals Fenyx Rising? heard it was like BoTW

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in ancient greece

is it good?

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no

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Im playing it right now. Its great, with a caveat

the gameplay is excellent; it uses the BOTW formula of being able to climb everywhere and limited by your stamina. There are vaults that are linear puzzle challenges where at the end you get a doohickey you can use to upgrade your stamina.

combat is better than BOTW, with no breakable weapons and a ton of weapons you can find by solving puzzles in the overworld. (Not unique weapons, essentially just stat changes to your sword and axe. I havent found much use for changing them around)

the overworld, from a gameplay perspective, is much more interesting than BOTW. Instead of the korok seeds everywhere, the world is filled with puzzles, and for the most part the game does a good job hinting at a solution without outright telling you. These give you more collectibles that you can use to buy skills, upgrade weapons and armor, etc

thats one thing, imo, it does much better than BOTW. There is a clear sense of progression and getting more powerful as each challenge you do puts you closer to more skills/stat upgrades

what it does not do better, is the story. The world is beautiful, but it doesnt have the atmosphere of BOTW, and the game tries really hard to be funny but comes off as a discount dreamworks version of Greek history. The dialogue and jokes are, frankly, terrible.

but if youre in it for gameplay I am enjoying this more than BOTW

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TheGoldenEel posted...

but if youre in it for gameplay I am enjoying this more than BOTW

thanks for your write up! i think ill give this a try

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Should note that I wasnt loving the first few hours... the tutorial sections were a little weak for me but once you get your core abilities (wings for gliding and double jumping, and essentially magnesia from BOTW) the game really opens up and you tackle the four main quest lines in any order

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TheGoldenEel posted...

combat is better than BOTW, with no breakable weapons

woah woah woah stop hold up wait hold the phone shut the fuck up

everyone told me BotW is a 10/10 game and that breakable weapons was an incredible innovation in the series that added to the difficulty and challenge of the experience

are you saying that wasn't the case? i'm so confused rn

LinkDaLunatic posted...

woah woah woah stop hold up wait hold the phone shut the fuck up

everyone told me BotW is a 10/10 game and that breakable weapons was an incredible innovation in the series that added to the difficulty and challenge of the experience

are you saying that wasn't the case? i'm so confused rn

Are you aware that different people have different opinions?

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Wow who posted 2-6 are missing lol

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LinkDaLunatic posted...

woah woah woah stop hold up wait hold the phone shut the fuck up

everyone told me BotW is a 10/10 game and that breakable weapons was an incredible innovation in the series that added to the difficulty and challenge of the experience

are you saying that wasn't the case? i'm so confused rn

I've never seen anyone say that. Breakable weapons were like the 1 thing everyone agreed was annoying about that game. Sure you get some shills who qualify it by saying "they were annoying but...." but nobody thinks they were a great addition.

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lilORANG posted...

I've never seen anyone say that. Breakable weapons were like the 1 thing everyone agreed was annoying about that game. Sure you get some shills who qualify it by saying "they were annoying but...." but nobody thinks they were a great addition.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/ 266202-the-legend-of-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-sequel/78094563

delete the space. 80 character limit and whatever

BoTW is pretty damn revolutionary for what it was trying to do, so obviously other games going for the same formula is going to do it better. But yeah im enjoying this game way more than GI or BoTW, but only because im more combat centric kind of guy.

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